Category Archives: Middle East

Press Release 21 June 2018 End the conflict and humanitarian disaster in Yemen Citizens International chairman S.M. Mohamed Idris, in a letter to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, appealed to him, as a highly respected world statesman, to initiate action in the United Nations General Assembly to order the parties involved…

The White House’s peace plan is said to be days away. Meanwhile, Israel is getting a US nod as it carries on seizing Palestinian land There are mounting signals that Donald Trump’s much-delayed Middle East peace plan – billed as the “deal of the century” – is about to be unveiled. Even though Trump’s officials…

Recent elections in Tunisia and Lebanon have underscored the different realities affecting political ‘Islamist’ victories While the 2011 Arab Spring tremors in Tunisia and Lebanon are subsiding, two elections have given a sense of the current state of political forces in the region, in very different contexts. Both the municipal vote in Tunisia and the…

Israel has been exposed as an oppressive, ruthless state that violates international law by using lethal, high-velocity bullets against peaceful protesters Non-violent popular resistance is not new to the Palestinian people. It was practised in the famous six-month civil disobedience strike of 1936 and reached an impressive level during the First Intifada, forcing the Israeli…

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in December 2017 (AFP) Prince Khaled: I have received a large number of emails from within the police and army in support of my call. DUSSELDORF, Germany – A dissident Saudi prince has called on his uncles to depose King Salman and…

Ankara summit focuses on Syria’s fate once war ends The leaders of Iran, Turkey and Russia met this week in Ankara to discuss potential political solutions to the Syrian civil war, while solidifying their positions as decision-makers, working to settle their own differences and agreeing to counter external “challengers” in the Syrian peace process:…

LONDON – A lobby group which campaigns for the right of return of Palestinian refugees is battling Thomson Reuters in the High Court, amid claims that the company erroneously labelled it as having links to terrorism. The London-based Palestinian Return Centre (PRC), which is recognised by the United Nationsand lobbies for the rights of Palestinians…

WASHINGTON — The president of the Zionist Organization of America is the latest pro-Israel figure to visit Qatar and meet with its leader. “They invited me to go a number of times – in September, October, November and December,” Morton Klein told Haaretz on Monday, confirming his visit earlier this month. “At first I refused…

From the historical report, a month before the declaration, on 9 April 1948, in Deir Yassin, 254 men, women and children were butchered by the Zionist terror group Irgun. It was designed by the Zionist High Command, led by the first Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion. This black chapter in history, without doubt,…

A day after meeting Zionist rabbis – who form the religious backbone of Israel’s West Bank colonization – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu awarded another big dollop of cash for settlements on occupied Palestinian land. According to the newspaper Haaretz, Netanyahu had sought the rabbis’ support in the face of mounting corruption probes. Netanyahu’s office denies…